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Re:What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD by Al-Khwarizmi on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:47AM (#17859173)
As far as my personal experience is concerned, a PhD has no bearing whatsoever on your capacity to do solid research.

That is all well and good, but I can't name a single person in my research field who has a decent publication record without a PhD (finished or in progress).

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Re:What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD by PAClearner on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:33PM (#17864583)
you must do theory right? tcs? based on the name edit: AI and ML are close enough :)
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Re:What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD by Al-Khwarizmi on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:08PM (#17872065)
Yep, mainly NLP (including the theoretical parts).
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Re:What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD by PAClearner on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:29AM (#17877005)
Elmo is bae
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